THE NEW YORK TIMES: After 21 months of devastating conflict with Israel, Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians — the young, the old and the sick — are facing what aid groups say is impending famine.
Atef Abu Khater, 17, who was healthy before Gaza was gripped by war, lies in intensive care in a hospital in the north of the Palestinian enclave, suffering from severe malnutrition.
“He is not responding to the treatment,” said his father, A’eed Abu Khater, 48, who has been sheltering in a tent in Gaza City with his wife and five children. “I feel helpless,” he added in a phone call, his voice strained with grief. “We lost our income in the war. Food is unaffordable. There is nothing.”
Gaza’s hospitals have struggled since early in the war to cope with the influx of Palestinians injured and maimed by Israeli airstrikes and, more recently, by shootings meant to disperse desperate crowds as they surge toward food convoys or head to aid distribution sites. » | Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Isabel Kershner and Abu Bakr Bashir | Visuals by Saher Alghorra | Rawan Sheikh Ahmad reported from Haifa, Israel; Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem; and Abu Bakr Bashir from London. Saher Alghorra recorded images in Gaza. | Thursday, July 24, 2025
That our politicians have allowed things to come to this is nothing short of an absolute disgrace. Innocent people should not be made to suffer for the wrongdoings of criminals and terrorists. Western politicians should have put a stop to this a long time ago. — © Mark Alexander
